I more often than not first only see “Stan” when the name “Satan” is shown in print. Something about my brain causes a skip over the first A.

Random cool discovery, some office in my building has an open wireless router. I can compose mail and surf all over South Florida now.. walking up and down Las Olas I found no less than a dozen hot spots, most were passworded, but several let me just surf away.

Best location is Picasso Joe’s… sit down, have a milkshake or whatnot, people watch, and still have your internet morphine on a handy-dandy mobile IV. The open ones are usually default linksys, MSHOME or whatever comes with the package they invested in. Surfing for free beats paying $.10 a minute with a big, blunt object.

I did notice that constantly scanning for connections burned about 20% of my battery in about half an hour, otherwise, the new gizmo is pretty fuel-efficient. A nice thing about the browser is that I can download and cache stuff for reading later… so even if I did do a by the minute plan, I could log on, slurp down my friends page in LJ, as well as a few news locations I hit daily (all as an automated macro, not manually, unless I wanted to) and have stuff to read offline for a long while. I’m very impressed with how nice my lj and homepage look on the browser. It runs flash and java well, and cookies aren’t a problem. wireless tech has improved a great deal since I last fooled with it on a PDA.

First Pictures taken with the new palm… uploaded from there directly to photobucket, via the browser my digi-cam is far superior, but this will do in a pinch. I’ll still take the bulky one on walks, but not to work.

Of course, the first shot is of Newt, in bad light. Why break tradition?

dinner at mom’s place, bro’s first night back. just fooling around. I like the smiley-salt shaker.

The auto-balance for light isn’t the best… it looks like we’re taking the bus into the great beyond… or maybe just witnessing an atomic explosion.

In front of this hoity-toity overpriced purveyor of sunglasses, there are four overlapping hot spots to choose from (only one is encrypted.) This is across the street from P-Joes.

I resized to the smaller, just to see, and I think I’ll go back to 640 x 480, and then crop what I don’t want.

The surprise from my walkies… Ducklings! There’s a family of six babies and a mama about 2 blocks from 8th and broward. I hope they stay safely out of traffic’s way. I didn’t want to get closer, or scare the mama. I’ll try to get better piccies this weekend with both cameras.

All of the servers on city of Heroes were in the yellow last night…that’s a good sign that it’s healthy, i think. I wonder what it’ll look like in three months, once all the brand new buyers have decided whether or not to keep a subscription.

Found this site, talking to Sammy yesterday. Interesting that it mentions all the little zones nearby on my journeys. The singing fountain, Museum ‘f art, Potato-chip lookin’ free summer movie location.

Coming movies – Anyone want to join me? I think I’ll start attending ’em…100 East Las Olas Blvd. 8 p.m. the last Saturday of the month. Refreshments for purchase, or bring your own for a picnic in the park.

May 29

• Mr. Roberts with Henry Fonda, Jack Lemon and James Cagney
• The Odd Couple with Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau

June 26

• The Philadelphia Story with James Stewart, Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn.
• It Happened One Night with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert

July 31

• Blackboard Jungle with Glenn Ford, Sydney Poitier and Vic Morrow
• The Wild One with Marlon Brando

August 28

• Top Hat with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers
• Chicago with Rene Zellweger, Katherine Zeta Jones, Richard Gere & Queen Latifah

Sept. 25

• Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn
• Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

October 30

• A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers
• The Party with Peter Sellers

current mood: Sufferin’ Schnitzels! It’s… DEUTSCHMAN!!

current music: Stay Tuned

One of the two men on a couch: I’ve lost the feeling in my arm.
The other man: All of a sudden, I can’t see anything.
[they collapse]
TV Announcer: Sundays at 8:00… Diff’rent Strokes.

Nggghhaahhh!
Grrr arrr Rum and Monkey.